Visa (V) Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 15 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" V shares.
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17 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Visa's shares. Their V share price forecasts range from $246.00 to $300.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $273.77 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.7% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $207.76 at the start of the year. Since then, V stock has increased by 13.9% and is now trading at $236.61.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 24th 2023.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 25th. The credit-card processor reported $2.16 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.11 by $0.05. The credit-card processor earned $8.12 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $8.06 billion. Visa had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 49.42% and a net margin of 51.94%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 11.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.98 EPS.
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Visa announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 25th. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 11th will be given a dividend of $0.45 per share on Friday, September 1st. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.76%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 10th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Visa (NYSE:V) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Upholdings Compound Kings ETF (KNGS), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL), Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH) and ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY).

Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.74%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 14 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 22.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.42% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Visa split on Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which authorizes the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to repurchase up to 3.1% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

Visa trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "V."

Visa's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (106.69%), BlackRock Inc. (6.82%), State Street Corp (3.98%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.79%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (1.37%) and Capital International Investors (1.10%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, James H Hoffmeister, Julie B Rottenberg, Lloyd Carney, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon and Vasant M Prabhu.
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One share of V stock can currently be purchased for approximately $236.61.

Visa (NYSE:V) has a market capitalization of $440.53 billion and generates $29.31 billion in revenue each year. The credit-card processor earns $14.96 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.88 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 26,500 workers across the globe.

Visa's mailing address is P.O. BOX 8999, SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94128. The official website for the company is usa.visa.com. The credit-card processor can be reached via phone at (650) 432-3200 or via email at ir@visa.com.